Bird Cage Hook
6th century
Object PlaceIndia
Medium/TechniqueBronze
DimensionsL. .177
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2352
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
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ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)
18th century
16th–17th century
12th or 13th century
8th century
9th century
A.D. 1453
a) 10th–12th century, b) 11th century
16th century
12th–14th century
13th century
about 1800